Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

You express the truth of your character, your dedication to your goals, and your commitment to your relationships with the choice of your actions.

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.

Great battles that prevail in actions had been won or lost earlier in thoughts. When the mind resists change, it’s in vain the legs chase it!

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions; they never walk alone!